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Minor earthquake, 2.82 mag strikes near Brookings in OR


Earthquake location 41.806S, -125.5103333WA minor earthquake with magnitude 2.82 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 105 km WSW of Brookings, OR (65 miles). The temblor was picked up at 08:02:06 / 8:02 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc73036831. Event ids that are associated: uw61391072, nc73036831. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 17.44 km (11 miles). Exact location of event, longitude -125.5103333 West, latitude 41.806 North, depth = 17.44 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 16:02:06 / June 27, 2018 @ 4:02 pm.

Every year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 105 km WSW of Brookings, OR.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 2.82 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -125.5103333° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 41.806° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 17.44 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 105km WSW of Brookings, OR Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-27 16:02:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-27 23:58:03 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 122 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network nc The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,uw,nc, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 17 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.04 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.17 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 299 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID nc73036831 Id of event.
Event Code 73036831 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,uw61391072,nc73036831, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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